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effluvium

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effluvium [ə′flü·vē·əm]
(industrial engineering)
By-products of food and chemical processes, in the form of wastes.


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None of these was like it, though it had something of them all, with, added, the sourness of chemical waste and the poisonous effluvium of the bilge of a water-logged ship whereon a multitude of rats had been drowned.
Where a foot is placed an effluvium remains for a considerable time.
And he breathed the breath of the house--a dank savour rather than a smell --a cold, musty effluvium as from underground vaults mingled with the reeking exhalations of linoleum and mildewed and rotten woodwork.
 
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